A Thrice-Told Tale

"A Thrice-Told Tale provides enjoyable fiction, important glimpses of fieldwork methodology, first-rate feminist analysis, and stimulating polemic. It can be used with studentsof history, women's studies and other fields in addition to anthropology."

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"A Thrice-Told Tale provides enjoyable fiction, important glimpses of fieldwork methodology, first-rate feminist analysis, and stimulating polemic. It can be used with students--of history, women's studies and other fields in addition to anthropology."--Journal of Oriental Studies

Résumé
A young mother began to behave in a decidedly aberrant, perhaps suicidal manner, and opinion in her village was sharply divided over the reason. Was she becoming a shaman, posessed by a god? Was she deranged, in need of physical restraint, drugs, and hospitalization?

Contenu

1. Ruminations with a view(point); 2. The hot spell; 3. Fieldnotes; 4. The woman who didn't become a Shaman; 5. Writing ethnography: the poetics and politics of culture; Index.